You Must Believe in Spring

You Must Believe in Spring
Studio album by Bill Evans
Released 1981
Recorded August 23-25, 1977
Capitol Studios, Los Angeles
Genre Jazz
Length 33:48
Label Warner Bros.
HS-3504
Producer Helen Keane, Tommy LiPuma
Bill Evans chronology
We Will Meet Again
(1979)
You Must Believe in Spring
(1981)
Re: Person I Knew
(1981)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
All About Jazz(favorable) [1]
Allmusic [2]
Los Angeles Times [3]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[4]

You Must Believe in Spring is an album by jazz pianist Bill Evans, recorded by Evans, bassist Eddie Gómez, and drummer Eliot Zigmund in August 1977, and released after Evans' death in September 1980. It was Evans's last recording sessions done with Gomez on bass, who left after eleven years with Evans to pursue other musical projects. The same year, Evans also recorded the title song in duet with jazz vocalist Tony Bennett on their second album, Together Again.

In addition to a song about suicide, the album's two originals by Evans are dedicated to his common-law wife Ellaine Schultz and his brother Harry, both of whom had taken their own lives.[5] Rhino reissued the album on compact disc in 2003 with three bonus tracks added, including a take on the only song from Kind of Blue that Evans did not play on, "Freddie Freeloader." The liner notes indicate that Evans plays electric piano on "Without a Song"; if so, it is not audible on the track.

Track listing

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."B Minor Waltz (for Ellaine)"  Bill Evans3:12
2."You Must Believe in Spring"  Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman, Jacques Demy, Michel Legrand5:37
3."Gary's Theme"  Gary McFarland4:15
4."We Will Meet Again (for Harry)"  Bill Evans3:59
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."The Peacocks"  Jimmy Rowles6:00
2."Sometime Ago"  Sergio Mihanovich4:52
3."Theme from M*A*S*H (Suicide Is Painless)"  Mike Altman, Johnny Mandel5:53

Personnel

References

  1. All About Jazz review
  2. Yanow, Scott. You Must Believe in Spring at AllMusic
  3. Feather, Leonard. "Jazz Albums: Bill Evans a Rewarding Set". The Los Angeles Times. February 22, 1981. Retrieved 2013-04-17.
  4. Swenson, J. (Editor) (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 74. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
  5. Francis Davis, You Must Believe in Spring, Rhino 8122-73719-2 liner notes p. 7.
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